<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post842495022480863745..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6416248750669245904</id><published>2010-06-04T09:48:35.283-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-04T09:48:35.283-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Look up the passage on Smith&amp;#39;s Wealth of Natio...</title><summary type='text'>Look up the passage on Smith&amp;#39;s Wealth of Nations.  Too long to quote here. It&amp;#39;s hilarious.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/6416248750669245904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/6416248750669245904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1275659315283#c6416248750669245904' title=''/><author><name>mgushuedc</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10116858669590406909</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1541080022"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5655976248223417135</id><published>2010-05-27T19:00:07.805-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T19:00:07.805-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Moby-Dick the White Album?</title><summary type='text'>Is Moby-Dick the White Album?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/5655976248223417135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/5655976248223417135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1275001207805#c5655976248223417135' title=''/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15639031912135091927</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PotBGB08_vA/SOuufgqJTAI/AAAAAAAAALk/RmgJLOBjuUY/S220/mad_song_schiavo_cover.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-179247073"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4328708212583242655</id><published>2010-05-27T10:29:41.331-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T10:29:41.331-04:00</updated><title type='text'>....hell is a democracy of devils, where all are e...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;....hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. There, Nero howls side by side with his own malefactors. If Napoleon were truly but a martial murderer, I pay him no more homage than I would a felon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eloquent and sublime as Maestro Melville be (and moments in Moby Dick--at least once the Pequod&amp;#39;s put out to sea-- among Top 10 of the Amer.-Lit. jukebox), he usually </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/4328708212583242655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/4328708212583242655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274970581331#c4328708212583242655' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/S-Mhd26f68I/AAAAAAAABCs/-DRnC_5JCm4/S220/RinglingProgramCover1929.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5244590126618386266</id><published>2010-05-27T10:18:27.774-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T10:18:27.774-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What Olson saw in Melville, we now more easily com...</title><summary type='text'>What Olson saw in Melville, we now more easily comprehend as well.  He was the first American novelist to see in picaresque animadversion the potential broadness of the modern (and post-modern) meta-novel (and the limitless extent of the new nation).  His work does not point to Joyce and James and Anthony Powell, but to Dreiser and Tappan Wright and Rand and Pynchon.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole notion</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/5244590126618386266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/5244590126618386266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274969907774#c5244590126618386266' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3093474309293815437</id><published>2010-05-27T08:47:27.941-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T08:47:27.941-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I personally believe that the gate of Heaven &amp;quot...</title><summary type='text'>I personally believe that the gate of Heaven &amp;quot;turns on golden binges&amp;quot;. But the Lib of America version correctly has it as &amp;quot;hinges&amp;quot;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/3093474309293815437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/3093474309293815437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274964447941#c3093474309293815437' title=''/><author><name>Buck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04503657076745189153</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-293043333"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7846176824212939683</id><published>2010-05-27T08:26:03.485-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T08:26:03.485-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Redburn... I&amp;#39;d call it Melville&amp;#39;s Rubber S...</title><summary type='text'>Redburn... I&amp;#39;d call it Melville&amp;#39;s Rubber Soul but I don&amp;#39;t expect Beatles analogies to play well here?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/7846176824212939683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/7846176824212939683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274963163485#c7846176824212939683' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6316701651299753547</id><published>2010-05-27T08:09:15.977-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T08:09:15.977-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My favorite passage in Redburn: “There are classes...</title><summary type='text'>My favorite passage in Redburn: “There are classes of men in the world, who bear the same relation to society at large, that the wheels do to a coach: and are just as indispensable. But however easy and delectable the springs upon which the insiders pleasantly vibrate: however sumptuous the hammer-cloth, and glossy the door-panels; yet, for all this, the wheels must still revolve in dusty, or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/6316701651299753547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/6316701651299753547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274962155977#c6316701651299753547' title=''/><author><name>jpc</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03810955298378231921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ggSluWibBdw/SmXDx6nKNKI/AAAAAAAAADQ/kyoxZPbTiAA/S220/in_wien.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-171107965"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4614087215086678244</id><published>2010-05-27T05:36:46.079-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T05:36:46.079-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;Have been reading Redburn, the Lib. of Am. v...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have been reading Redburn, the Lib. of Am. version, and finding similar pleasures.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/4614087215086678244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/842495022480863745/comments/default/4614087215086678244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html?showComment=1274953006079#c4614087215086678244' title=''/><author><name>Jake Berry</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08241519621961278463</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/54551456_0bbf84a086_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/no-less-authority-than-herman-melville.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-842495022480863745' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/842495022480863745' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992562138"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry></feed>